This is part of an on-going series of photographs of weather vanes in the Nutfield, New Hampshire area (formerly Derry, Londonderry and parts of Hudson, Windham and Manchester). Some of the weather vanes are historical, some are whimsical, and all are interesting.
Do you know the location of weather vane #65? Scroll down to the bottom to see the answer!
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A flying eagle weather vane sits atop the large cupola on this unusual home in Windham, New Hampshire. The home is a former carriage house, part of the
estate of A. Everett “Chick” Austin, who built the Windham Playhouse in 1946
from an old barn built in the 1830s.
His estate lodged upcoming young actors like Rod Steiger, Jack Carter
and Jason Robards. Chick Austin was the
director of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut and the Ringling
Museum in Sarasota, Florida. In 1957 he
had donated land which bordered his estate to expand the cemetery the Cemetery
on the Hill, where he is buried.
If you like this unusual looking house, it is
currently up for sale. It's located on
Range Road.
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of America: Windham, by Bradford R. Dinsmore, Arcadia Publishing, 2003 (chapter 9, starting
on page 119, is all about the Windham Playhouse and Chick Austin)
A biography of Arthur Everett Austin- Magician
of the Modern, by Eugene Gaddis, Knopf Publishing, 2000
Official
Town Website, Windham, NH, “A Closer Look… Windham’s Public
Cemeteries” http://www.windhamnewhampshire.com/updated/pdfs/CemeteryHistory.pdf
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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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